State Policy and National Representation: Marijuana Politics in American Federalism

Samuel Trachtman, sam.trachtman@berkeley.edu
Legislative Studies Quarterly

The file "replication_file.R" can be used to replicate the tables and figures in the manuscript. It uses the following data sources, which are also provided in this replication package:

1. "opinions.xlsx"-- State-year level estimates of opinions towards marijuana legalization and broad social and economic liberalism. Derived from Caughey and Warshaw (2020) 
2. "revenue_by_state_2018"-- Provides measures of revenue from marijuana industry at the state level in 2018. Source: National Cannabis Industry Association
3. "mj_policy.dta"-- Provides state-year measures of the state of marijuana legalization in the states
4. "pres_votes.xlsx"-- Provides measures of Presidential vote share at the state level
5. "mj_116th_data.dta"-- Provides measures of bill sponsorship of key marijuana-related bills in the 116th Congress
6. "cleaned_097.dta-- cleaned_099.dta"-- Provdes measures of bill sponsorship of bills that would legalize marijuana for medical use from the 1980's
7. "H116_members.csv"-- Provides list of and basic details about House members in the 116th Congress
8. "state_policy_chart.xlsx"-- Provides measures of when states legalized marijuana, and also the score of initiative votes. 
9. "mj_finance_analysis.dta"-- Provides measures of campaign contributions from marijuana industry to congressional elections. Source: OpenSecrets. 


References:
Caughey, Devin, and Christopher Warshaw. 2020. Dynamic Democracy: Citizens, Politicians, and Policymaking in the American States, 1936-2018. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

